History of RussiaMacmillan, 1925 - Broj stranica: 435 |
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administration affairs Alexander army authority became beginning boyars brother brought called capital Catherine caused century Church classes clergy close Cossacks Council court death died Dmitri elected Emperor Empress established Europe favor fight followed forced foreign formed French gave Germans Grand Prince Greek gubernia hand head idea important influence inhabitants institutions Italy Ivan Kiev King land Lithuania lived marched measures military Moscow Nicholas nobility nobles Novgorod officers organized Orthodox Patriarch peace peasants period Peter Poland Poles Polish political principality provinces reforms reign relations remained River rule Russian Senate sent serfs Slavs social soon sovereign struggle subjects succession Tartars territory throne tion took tribes troops Tsar Turks turned union Vasili Vladimir Volga Western whole
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Stranica 21 - Our whole land is great and rich, but there is no order in it. Come to rule and reign over us.
Stranica 124 - Isabella, at the close of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries...
Stranica 280 - ... and could not be taken from him without due process of law, was adjudged guilty of contempt of court.
Stranica 353 - As the coast of the Black Sea, from the mouth of the Kuban to the harbour of St. Nicholas inclusive, came under the dominion of the Russian empire, by Article IV.
Stranica 201 - ... anything that aroused laughter. While the dividing line between tragedy and comedy was sharply drawn by most Renaissance critics and commentators, in practice, this line was often blurred, sometimes nearly obliterated when a new type of drama became fashionable. The ups and downs of tragicomedy at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, the theories of Guarini,78 the practice of Tasso, Guarini, Fletcher, and Shakespeare constitute an important chapter in the history...
Stranica 388 - Great attempted to take Central Asia under his control by siding with one khan against another and mixing up in their feuds, but only disaster came out of this. It was found advisable thereafter to advance more slowly and to erect in the steppes and deserts a number of forts to protect the frontier districts settled by Russians.
Stranica 163 - Pozharski consolidated their departments and officials into a single government and did "all things in common." On October 22 the Russians took Kitaigorod, just outside of the Kremlin and four days later the Polish garrison, exhausted by hunger and fighting, surrendered to Pozharski. Moscow was once more free. To commemorate this great event, the army erected the Kazan Cathedral on the Red Square.
Stranica 187 - Isus," and that the sign of the cross should be made with three fingers, not with two.
Stranica 388 - In the eighteenth century the principal bases of support for this slow offensive movement were the cities of Orenburg and Semipalatinsk in the north, and Krasnovodsk on the Caspian in the west. By the middle of the...
Stranica 210 - Under the influence of his games and of his foreign instructors, Peter became little by little a soldier and a sailor. He did not obtain the ordinary scholastic education of his time, but acquired instead some special, unusual knowledge, and showed some queer preferences which were not at all what was expected